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14 February 2015 9:00 am

Quos deus vult perdere, prius dementat – with apologies to Boswell. (‘Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.’)…

Business/Robbery etc

14 February 2015 9:00 am

Sour grapes - or inside knowledge?

Australian notes

12 February 2015 2:00 pm

Quos deus vult perdere, prius dementat – with apologies to Boswell. (‘Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.’)…

Australian notes

7 February 2015 9:00 am

The remarkable thing about Tony Abbott’s speech to the National Press Club was how unremarkable it was. There were no…

Australian notes

5 February 2015 2:00 pm

The remarkable thing about Tony Abbott’s speech to the National Press Club was how unremarkable it was. There were no…

Australian notes

31 January 2015 9:00 am

The Queen has conferred knighthoods on the Americans Bill Gates and Norman Schwarzkopf. She appointed South Africa’s Nelson Mandela to…

Business/Robbery etc

31 January 2015 9:00 am

New hope or no hope?

Australian notes

29 January 2015 2:00 pm

The Queen has conferred knighthoods on the Americans Bill Gates and Norman Schwarzkopf. She appointed South Africa’s Nelson Mandela to…

Australian notes

24 January 2015 9:00 am

Baffling that so many observers had so much trouble interpreting the recent Charlie Hebdo cover on which Mohammed is depicted…

Australian notes

22 January 2015 2:00 pm

Baffling that so many observers had so much trouble interpreting the recent Charlie Hebdo cover on which Mohammed is depicted…

Australian notes

17 January 2015 9:00 am

It must have been one of the last cartoons he drew before he was murdered. The editor of Charlie Hebdo…

Business/Robbery etc

17 January 2015 9:00 am

The Australian National University’s ‘ethical’ dumping of $16 million in Australian resource stocks last October has progressed from ‘stupid’ (as…

Australian notes

15 January 2015 2:00 pm

It must have been one of the last cartoons he drew before he was murdered. The editor of Charlie Hebdo…

Australian notes

10 January 2015 9:00 am

If only Tony Abbott could bring the conviction and even eloquence he demonstrated in Baghdad to bear on the Budget…

Australian notes

8 January 2015 2:00 pm

If only Tony Abbott could bring the conviction and even eloquence he demonstrated in Baghdad to bear on the Budget…

Business/Robbery etc

3 January 2015 9:00 am

Big oil, coal and iron ore producers are flooding the market to knock out rival - and China-friendly - suppliers

The Yanks are too childish to play rugby

3 January 2015 9:00 am

Watching the American Eagles get slaughtered by the All-Blacks proved too much for the home crowd

Australian notes

13 December 2014 9:00 am

It’s worth repeating. A British Prime Minister (the Earl of Derby) to Queen Victoria: ‘The definition of an Independent Member…

Brown study

13 December 2014 9:00 am

I had hoped to bring you a cheery Christmas tale, but the political goings on in Melbourne and Canberra mean…

Australian notes

11 December 2014 3:00 pm

It’s worth repeating. A British Prime Minister (the Earl of Derby) to Queen Victoria: ‘The definition of an Independent Member…

Australian notes

29 November 2014 9:00 am

The ABC’s Australian Story (‘Just Call Me Bob’) about the former Prime Minister Robert James Lee Hawke touched on many…

Business/Robbery etc

29 November 2014 9:00 am

Millions of Australian investors can now sleep safely in their beds knowing that in November 2014 Jacqui Lambie and Ricky…

Australian notes

27 November 2014 3:00 pm

The ABC’s Australian Story (‘Just Call Me Bob’) about the former Prime Minister Robert James Lee Hawke touched on many…

Business/Robbery etc

15 November 2014 9:00 am

No wonder so many Australians, from those with modest incomes to the very rich, now prefer to satisfy their compulsory…

Australian Notes

15 November 2014 9:00 am

Right and proper that generous tributes are paid at a memorial service, even if sometimes undeserved or exaggerated. But what…